Ah, winter. It is generally more useful to reckon it as the time from the winter solstice to the spring equinox since the weather tends to lag a bit behind the shortening of the days. I put it down to the land and water, a mass that takes a good long time to get charged up with the energy of long summer days, and another while to let it go again when the days grow short. Here, it might be better reckoned by the quarter of the year with the shortest days. Those short days just get worse when going north. The day length changes so quickly when it is perfect and even. It changes slowly when it is long or short, just settling down into it for a long wallow. Short days leave long nights. When I live by the sun, that morning takes a long time to come. I even tend to have blundered into the dark before feeling ready to have the evening supper, but once it is dark, that's what time it is. The day's activities just generally are best with light. So cooking happens. Cleaning happens. (...
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